Did Anyone Buy Their Kid a ‘Wicked’ Doll Recently? About That…

Huge thanks to Jen for this little gem: As Wicked gets ready to drop into theaters for the Thanksgiving holiday, Mattel has revealed that it made just a little, teeny bit of an oopsie with the packaging for dolls based on the film. Namely, accidentally including a link to a porn site. Because I’m dead inside, I find all of this hilarious, but nothing beats the panicked statement Mattel put out: “Consumers who already have the product are advised to discard the product packaging or obscure the link and may contact Mattel Customer Service for further information.” If you cannot destroy the packaging, please hurl your body in front of it until a Mattel representative arrives with a flamethrower. Your child will not see upwards of three to four people doing naked stuff. We give you our word as a quality toy manufacturer. (Variety)

A very large Chris Hemsworth joins Halle Berry for Crime 101. (Lainey Gossip)

Hugh Grant: “People quite rightly were repelled by” my fake romantic persona. (Celebitchy)

RIP working class feminist/absolute badass Dorothy Allison. (Wonkette)

From Kayleigh: The NYT Tech Guild has made a games website for us to play with rather than break their strike. (NYT Guild)

Audiobook narrators should not be allowed to do the voices. (Type Click Type)

Halo 2 is a classic, but its development was a mess. (Rolling Stone)

HBO swears to freaking God it is not cancelling Euphoria Season 3 even though all signs point in that exact direction. (Deadline)

From Seth: Lolol 10 out of 10, no f*cking notes. (TikTok)

Christopher Nolan is bringing us a perfect cast for his next film. (Mary Sue)

Threads is apparently overrun with liberal election fraud conspiracies. Wonderful. Good… good… *walks into the sea* (UserMag)

Elderberrywine reviewed Elizabeth Taylor’s bittersweet Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, about a recently widowed woman who begins passing off a kind young man as her grandson. “This works out rather well for the both of them for a while, so much so that when the actual grandson finally makes an appearance, he is indignantly rejected by the rest of the hotel’s guests as an imposter.” Do you have a favorite fictional intergenerational friendship? (Cannonball Read 16)